it's being billed on the right as obama's other race speech, so at a time when some suggest a republican challenger doesn't seem to be getting much traction, the one thing we know what works is dredging up anti-obama sentiments to get the base fired up. now, yes, this is clearly old news. it was well covered five years ago. the other thing that a democratic and a republican strategist have both pointed out to me is as an opportunity to provide an answer to that secretly recorded video of mitt romney's so-called -- >> okay. so i want to make sure as we report on this, it's very difficult as a media outlet reporting on media, and we know there's a landscape. there's a right wing network, left wing network. sometimes we're accused of being both. by the way, i love that because we're obviously equal opportunity offenders. that is the conservative website is suggesting that part of this is that no one covered this. we went back in our archives. i thought is it possible that really happened? it just didn't make headlines? it made a lot of headlines. wolf blitzer on june 6th, 2007, said this, a